大有 → 升
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 6).
Line 1
初九 无交害。匪咎。艱則无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: No relationship with what is harmful; There is no blame in this. If one remains conscious of difficulty, One remains without blame.
Line 4
九四 匪其彭。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: He makes a difference Between himself and his neighbor. No blame.
Line 6
上九 自天祐之。吉无不利。
Nine at the top means: He is blessed by heaven. Good fortune. Nothing that does not further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
野有積庚，穡人駕取。不逢虎狼，暮歸其宇。
Wild grain stands heaped in the fields; the harvester drives his cart to gather it. Not encountering tiger or wolf; at dusk he returns to his homestead.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Harvested grain lies stored in the open fields. The farmer yokes his cart and goes to fetch it, encountering neither tiger nor wolf on the road. By evening he returns safely home. The verse tells a story of ordinary rural prosperity: the crop is in, the road is safe, and the farmer completes his work before nightfall. The absence of predators signals a world where the natural order cooperates with human labor. From Great Possession to Pushing Upward, fire above heaven becomes earth above wind — trees growing slowly within the soil. The farmer's steady, uneventful journey from field to home mirrors Pushing Upward's mechanism perfectly: small, consistent effort that builds gradually without dramatic interruption.
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